Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> Yeah, I caught a presentation by Jeff Schiller of MIT on the fun and games
> of CIFS authentication a few years back. It was pretty nifty, and as CPU
> overhead has continued to drop in price, it's become a much more acceptable
> overhead. But I've never had the opportunity or incentive to get it running.
>
> SMB is looking better and better for UNIX/Linux access. The resistance to
> failures of occasional disconnections, and its ubiquity in the Windows
> world, coupled with the helpful "reset all files in this directory to be
> owned by foo with permissions bar" that is trivial to set up in the Samba
> configurations is getting more and more appealing.

Funny you should say this, I've just finished adding the mknod call
into the Samba UNIX extensions that should allow the Linux CIFS client
to correctly mount peoples home directories case-sensitively and be
able to create unix domain socket files - thus allowing KDE etc to work
in a Samba-shared home directory.

I'm planning to give a talk on using SMB for UNIX to UNIX filesharing
(RFS reborn anyone ? :-) at both the CIFS and NFS conferences this year.

Jeremy.